Maxine Nwaneri is a certified life and career success coach, international speaker, and #1 Amazon international bestselling author - but that doesn’t cover the half of it.

She has worked with women on 5 continents, helping them achieve “work-life harmony” so they experience a sense of peace, purpose and success in both work and their family lives.

She is on a mission to help at least 1000 women on each continent escape what the Economist have called “The Birth Penalty” by 2028. This penalty describes the hit many women’s careers and/or pay take as they struggle to find balance after becoming mothers. She is passionate about helping these women create beyond their wildest dreams the career success without family sacrifice that she knows is possible for them.Maxine’s 5 Secrets are available here

Cath is a talented entrepreneur with a passion for helping women reach their professional potential. After experiencing burnout from working in the creative industry, a vacation to The Gambia with a friend in early 2018 set her on a very different path, and changed her life.

Her social enterprise, One World Women, is set to turn personal development on its head by combining voluntary work, coaching, and sustainable travel. An advocate for gender equality and on a heart-led mission, Cath is leading a movement for businesswomen, the world over.

Dr Sabine Wünschmann is a cutting edge holistic Gynaecologist and Obstetrician in private practice with over 30 years serving women internationally. Classically-trained, obstetrician/gynaecologist, she is also the founder of Hormone Harmony, an online 1:1 program helping women in Menopause and Perimenopause heal naturally from symptoms related to hormonal imbalances. She guides women to vibrant hormonal health using homeopathy, herbs, supplements, and functional medicine in her practice to help her clients thrive, sleep better, reduce menopause symptoms, migraines, PMS and other women’s health issues. She talks about how our longevity and pace of life are having an adverse effect on the body’s hormonal support. She offers a 3 part video series on Hormone Imbalance, where she defines all the symptoms, the risks and more. https://doctorsabine.com/videoseries/

In this episode I share with you what I have learned about the path to success and how being bodily connected to your goals is the difference between success and failure, views supported by the likes of Tony Robbins. In a nutshell, 1. Have absolute clarity 2. Be fierce! 3. Be intentional and two other surprising secrets.

Laura Lee Wood is a certified dating expert, relationship coach, and certified matchmaker. She practiced law for over a decade before she made the transition into dating, love, and relationship coaching for high-achievers. Laura works with successful, smart, high achieving women and men who have success in every area, except love. She helps her clients to open their hearts up to loving again to create a remarkable, lasting love relationship.

Jacquie Somerville is a best-selling author, speaker, and mentor, but really none of these describe her as well as her brand name describes her – she is a Divine Vixen. She is recognised as a woman with immense courage who lives from the heart – she's been married a few times, immigrated twice, been fat, slim, broke, rich, and followed her gut to a life of excitement, adventure, passion, and purpose. She speaks today about allowing your heart to lead your life.

Nerissa Naidu is head of Strategy, Chief Operating Officer and chair of the Audit Committee of subsidiaries of a Fortune 500 insurer. She speaks to us about how her life and career has been influenced by having strong, supportive, male advocates in her life, with her outlook of what is possible in life being deeply affected by Nelson Mandela, in her native South Africa.

Dawn Miller is president and CEO of AXA Insurance Company (US), based in New York. She is also a strong advocate of women’s advancement as the global lead for AXA’s Women As Entrepreneurs initiative. In this episode, she talks about the opportunity the insurance industry has to attract a diverse workforce that will frame and sustain a rapidly changing, dynamic industry.

Julie-Ann Clyma is an inspiring woman. A leadership coach and one of only 100 women out of 6000 qualified World Class Mountain Guides in the world, she has 30 years’ experience leading teams and individuals in volatile and demanding environments - some of the harshest in the world, from K2 in China to the Matterhorn. She talks of the lessons alpine mountaineering has taught her, and how they can be applied to the corporate world.

Rosanne Austin is a California-based Fertility Mindset Coach - yes, there is such a thing! As a former member of an elite team of sexual assault prosecutors, she describes her pursuit of motherhood, going from working in an intensely masculine environment to trying to do the intensely feminine act of conceiving. It’s a powerful story - with a happy ending!

I speak with a couple of Law Enforcement professionals about the influences women have in leadership in this traditionally masculine environment. Michael Laidler has spent a number of years in Law Enforcement in the US - police force, border patrol, and now the Bureau of Prisons where he is a lieutenant in Louisiana, and is also a leadership coach, certified trainer and keynote speaker. Julie Wilson is a communications specialist with leadership experience primarily in law enforcement and public safety communications.

Shawn Neff is a success coach, who helps transform people into CEOS, capable of running both profitable businesses and a flourishing home life. At the young age of 19, when she became the youngest female paramedic/search and rescue specialist in Northern Michigan. She applies the high intensity decision-making process she learned in her search and rescue days to her clients to use in their business and personal lives.

Anne-Marie Elder is Chief Underwriting Officer, for Marine insurance in North America for a Bermuda-based company, XL Catlin. Included in the Insurance Business America Elite Women 2016 roll of honour, she is based in Connecticut, USA, with over 25 years in the industry, and a graduate of the United States Merchant Marine Academy. She talks about how coming out about her sexuality made her a better leader with a more successful career.

An executive in the FinTech industry based in London, Gladis Sahlani has experienced success working in the Middle East and East Africa, where she was frequently the only woman in the room. She discusses how she approached this, what she learned about the power of her femininity, and the role models she had growing up in Lebanon.

Christy Venza, communications coach and founder of Inspire to Influence, describes her crippling experience of Impostor Syndrome, a condition experienced by 94% of women and men at some stage in their careers, and how she overcame daily self-doubt and her inner critic to find success.

Carolina Klint, CEO of the North West Region (Continental Europe) of Marsh, Inc discusses her jungle gym of a career path, authentic leadership, and how she achieved 50% gender representation in her leadership team within 2 - 3 years. An impactful leader and inspiring role model.

Jeannette Lichner is an accomplished corporate regulatory advisor with over 30 years’ experience leading business. She shares practical guidance about what women can do to prepare themselves for career success, including how to prepare yourself for a board position.

Gwenda Phillips is co-founder and CEO of Your Hidden Mind, as well as a leader at a global bank based in Sydney, Australia. Your Hidden Mind is a fascinating system that helps to improve your performance and release fears and intense emotional responses. This is an unplanned part 2 to the earlier session. As we kept talking about the Your Hidden Mind system, we decided to do a demonstration - and the results were amazing!

Gwenda Phillips is co-founder and CEO of Your Hidden Mind, as well as a leader at a global bank based in Sydney, Australia. Your Hidden Mind is a fascinating system that helps to improve your performance and release fears and intense emotional responses. We discuss the system, and how it has impacted our behaviour.

A special episode this week, as the host of Womanly Art of Leadership Sessions, Helen Fitness, appears as a guest on the weekly show “Happy Hour with Ollia” on French radio station Radio Enghien IDFM98 (in English). She discusses women's leadership, and in particular some of the issues that impact women in their journey to leadership, as well as some big, meaty topics like the current social environment. For rights reasons, we cannot air the music she chose for the show. For the full experience of the interview, you can search for the tracks on Youtube. They were: Can’t Hold Us (Macklemore), September (Earth, Wind & Fire), London’s Calling (The Clash), What’s Going On (Marvin Gaye).